I like to play gacha games. A lot of people here don’t, for reasons I rarely challenge because they are perfectly legit concerns. But I still like them for legit reasons of my own. This has been a bit of a source of a personal st...

We’re the ones who made it this far Mario has succeeded in making his fantastic journeys a part of our everyday lives, in more ways than one. His massive critical acclaim is no longer a surprise or a massive shift in the industr...

Rocket Power was one of those 90s Nick shows I simply liked, but boy did I watch it a ton. I didn’t love it, but I never saw any other show about kids pursuing their passion for extreme sports, so it stuck out to me. When I most...

Spin the wheel, take a chance Mario Party is the culprit behind many of the most infamous social gatherings in history. Much like Mario Kart, it’s known for placing random shenanigans before skill and practice. But applying that...

I’ve shared my mobile gaming habits on this site before, but my free-to-play hopping ventures go back to before I even had my own mobile phone. When it comes to gaming, I liken myself to an adventurer and explorer, always seeking...

A new world’s calling out to you
Nostalgia is a powerful tool. We long for the comfort of the things we indulged in during our childhoods, things that we trust more than anything we have to spend our adult paychecks on. Used wise...

Oh we can zoom all the way to the moon
The car. One of mankind’s greatest, and worst, inventions. It allows any ordinary person to cross miles within minutes, but in the wrong hands, it’s a dangerous tool. Of course, I&rsqu...

You know that you’re my superstar Mario rocketed himself to fame so quickly, yet he only seems to gain more and more momentum with each year. We’re used to his stellar performances, and he still manages to one-up himself and wo...

You know that any captain needs a crew Mario is iconic for many things, but whatever he does has his iconic ‘Mario’ flair. His games are happy-go-lucky, raising tension and drama only for the sake of adventurous thrill. Hi...

Hey! This is pretty unusual for what I do here, so here’s a quick FYI. I was wrestling with a bad mood last week (Spoilers: I’m much better now, thanks!) and I wasn’t 100% sure why. Eventually, my mind wandered over t...

You Flaming Idiots! The Internet is iconic for being a battlefield of opposing opinions. My motto is that as long as they don’t hurt anyone, it’s great to have contrasting thoughts and to respectfully debate them! But we a...

Jump up, don’t be scared The transition from 2D to 3D is a trial that countless video game mascots, but especially platformers, stumbled upon with the rise of polygonal graphics. Sonic landed decently enough at the time, but his...

To say that last month was a clusterfudge for Patreon would be an understatement. I discussed it already in quickposts and blogs, but to summarize what happened and the final result of those happenings… Around Dec. 6th, Patreo...

The mobile market is oversaturated with freemium RPGs. The foundations of the gashapon model, while not inherently malicious, are capable of sliding off the slippery slope so easily that it’s been exploited by countless companie...

EDIT - Patreon's announced that they're backpedaling! I still have a lot of things to weigh in light of this whole fiasco and whether or not I'll proceed with launching a Patreon page, but if nothing else, I'm glad for the countless cr...

I Wanna Be the Very Best
Fanfiction is a stigma among storytellers, but everyone starts somewhere. I first stretched my creative writing muscles over a decade ago on the official SEGA forums’ Sonic Fanfiction subforum, and your a...

You could say my hat is off to you Within a handful of years after his debut, Mario exploded into the most popular video game franchise of his time… mostly because he’s responsible for the explosion of the video game indu...

Clickbait proofing: No, I’m not putting my blogs behind a Patreon paywall. I’m not as heckbent on destroying my reputation as EA. Thanksgiving has already come and gone, but hoo boy… I still have so much to thank yo...

It's Freedom Like You Never Knew Ohsnap, I forgot to mention I also played Super Mario Bros 2 on NES during the first entry of this series! I guess part of why is that I don’t have many strong memories of that game. It’s a ...

Live and Learn... Hanging On the Edge of Tomorrow Sonic’s history is a troubled one. You don’t need me to tell you that, but I do need to tell you that’s what this blog is focused on today. At first, the little hedgeh...

DPS queues are bad enough by themselves
MMORPGs are a fascinating genre. They’re built out of countless players to form unique social atmospheres, intricate worlds to explore, and imposing dungeons and trials to challenge....

Here we go, off the rails
Mario is a phenomenal icon not only of video gaming, but of multimedia as a whole. Pretty much anyone who plays video games knows who he is. Pretty much anyone who doesn’t play video games knows ...

Welcome, Brave Warrior From Another Dimension
Disclaimer: I’ve been a fan of Christopher Niosi, AKA Kirbopher, ever since his days of Flash animations on Newgrounds. I enjoy listening to his Kirblogs. I get excited every t...

Recently I made some blogs about Fire Emblem Warriors, detailing my expectations for the game. As usual, my expectations mostly leaned towards optimism and hopefulness rather than skepticism and disappointment. Among my reasons for bei...

Power creep. The continual churning out of more powerful content for players to play with in their loadouts as an online game’s development continues. I don’t know anybody who enjoys power creep as a game mechanic. Having y...

I had a lot more fun writing my blog last month where I listed and explained my favorite games by genre than I expected to have. But my guidelines for which genres I’d discuss and how I’d group them up left a lot of favorit...

Remember the days when extra content in video games was a surprise to unlock instead of an extra purchase advertised up front? Game design and business models have changed a lot over the years, but the shift is most obvious in, say, fi...

You’re alone. Standing on the horizon is a massive, imposing enemy decimating the army before it. Swords, magic, and gunfire constantly wear it down, but the foe never seems to show any signs of stopping. You’ve prepared we...

Inspired by my fellow insect Greenhornet214, and this blog he wrote, I thought I’d take a crack at listing off some of my favorite video games throughout the years and describing what makes them my favorites. But I'm taking a dif...

Who likes to feel accomplished? I sure do. You sure do. We all sure do. Even game and console developers know we like to feel accomplished. That’s the principle behind the addition of achievement systems to gaming platforms; to m...

About Chris Hovermaleone of us since 8:03 PM on 07.31.2017

I'm a Contributor who used to go by the screen name Cedi! Obligatory disclosure; I backed Kirbopher/Chris Niosi's TOME RPG on Kickstarter.

I’m a longtime gamer who enjoys to write, to entertain, to inform, and to overanalyze the little things. Transparency and honesty are my foremost virtues in anything I do. I joined the Destructoid team to do something even cooler with the skills I love to practice and the hobby I love to explore.

As far as social media is concerned, you can find me on my personal Twitter account! Fair advice, you can expect to see a lot more of the big blue character in my banner if you check that out. Whether that's a recommendation or a warning depends. By the way, that banner is a commission by Twitter user @kaizer33226.